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The clinic has hosted two interdisciplinary conferences on diabetes care in the past year and has another planned for next March 15-17 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Wash., on prevention of diabetic amputations with a focus on medicine, surgery, research and wound care. “We have had up to 500 people, …

TYPE 2 DIABETES AND CHILDREN Part 2 Weight, Metabolism And Self-Esteem Issues In our previous segment I discussed the reasons for the staggering increase in Diabetes in children and why the worse is yet to come. Now I am going to help you help your patients understand why this is …

Blood glucose is often ignored by nurses and physicians who focus only on the reason for admission, not the underlying disease.

Fitness in early adulthood slashes diabetes and metabolic syndrome risk by 50%.

This Week’s Question: Comes from this weeks newsletter Item#2 Combining rosiglitazone, metformin, and insulin aspart improved glucose metabolism in obese type 2 diabetic patients compared with mixed insulin alone, according to the results of a open-label, randomized trial published in the December issue of Diabetes Care. Which of the following …

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EXERCISE, NOT DIET, MAY BE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST HEART DISEASE Despite widespread attention to diet, calorie intake may not be a major factor in causing death by heart disease, according to a 17-year study of almost 9,800 Americans.

Incidence of Hypoglycemia in Insulin-treated Type 2 Diabetes Higher than Previously Recognized Hypoglycemia may be more common patients with type 2 diabetes who are treated with insulin than was previously thought.

Beta-Blockers Improve Survival Outcomes In Diabetics With Heart Failure Therapy improves outcomes for diabetic patients with chronic heart failure, albeit not to the extent realized by patients without diabetes.

Renal Disease Progresses in Slowly Type 2 Diabetics Type 2 diabetic patients without overt nephropathy have a significant, but slow, course of renal insufficiency.